I can today buy level 80 chars, no one complaining about that? If you have more than one wow acc on your bnet account, scroll of res on yourself and voila, you have a level 80. You dont have more than 1 wow account? make one. Transfer the 80 level char to your acc, costs 20€

I can today buy level 80 chars, no one complaining about that? If you have more than one wow acc on your bnet account, scroll of res on yourself and voila, you have a level 80. You dont have more than 1 wow account? make one. Transfer the 80 level char to your acc, costs 20€

Shh, people here want to QQ and rage about everything; they do not want to be confronted with facts.

leveling the traditional way should slowly introduce you to spells and your class abilities over time. you should have real character development and learn to use different spells in different locations.

Oh this boss enraged, oh but i'm a druid and i just got "soothe". i guess i can remove that! cool.

instead you get players that have boosted to 90 instantly, have no idea how to play their character effectively and a weaker pool of players.

Except levelling as it currently is does not force you to play well.

Unless they institute a proper tutorial system, new players who are not used to the WoW system are going to always struggle.

As I said earlier in the thread, I do not believe a comprehensive system will ever be implemented, it will take 'too much dev time' especially so as WoW has already peaked and is now slowly but steadily diminishing its player base.

Considering how many people who are at lvl90 don't seem to know their class all that well despite having actually gone through the levelling process, I don't see any sort of "branding" as necessary, or even needed. A person who has what is needed to grasp the class can do that in several hours at lvl 90 (with the finer niches following in several days to week); a person who doesn't will never get there, period.
FoS for levelling "straightforward" isn't exactly necessary either; you already get an achievement for levelling a character to lvl X (where X mod 10 == 0, with the inclusion of lvl85). For all we know those might "not be there" when you use the granted/bought lvl90 (and likely won't be there, considering the concurrent nature of achievements).

5 minutes or less if you're OK with half-assing it through Noxxic. You'll still do about 90% of the DPS you would have if you were to actually do a proper deep-dive into your class.

Originally Posted by CandyCotton Marshmallows

People need to get over the gear color (and themselves). It doesn't matter, and it shouldn't matter what other players have either. Worry about your damn self. Live your life by that. If you want to concern yourself with someone else, then worry about HELPING them, not putting them down or making sure you stand out as better than them.

Maybe the game would be better with more low DPS nice guys and fewer high DPS jerks? -- Ghostcrawler, Twitter, 6/29/13

5 minutes or less if you're OK with half-assing it through Noxxic. You'll still do about 90% of the DPS you would have if you were to actually do a proper deep-dive into your class.

Precisely. Boosting does not make you a baddie. Being lazy and not learning your class makes you a baddie. I don't give a shit who boosts, as long as they pull their own weight when they pass through that portal.